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The 'Sound Medicine' program for Aug. 3 includesIU physicians discuss common sex myths and new book "Don't Put That in There!"Right-to-try for terminally…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/081813_5.mp3Holly Holmes, M.D. is an assistant professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/072113_3.mp3In the United States, 600,000 knee replacements are performed each year, and nearly half of all adults…

Maine is among a handful of states putting limits on the painkiller dose that doctors can prescribe a patient. Some doctors and patients say the law is helping, while others say it goes too far.

Prescription painkiller abuse sparked an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana. Kelly McEvers takes NPR's new podcast, Embedded, inside the home where IV drug users meet.

We may be more accepting of boys who cry, but only if they cry in the right way, Hanna Rosin suggests. The norm for male behavior may be stuck in a place that isn't doing boys much good.

Author Maia Szalavitz argues that it's impossible to destigmatize addiction while also rendering it the only diagnosis in medicine for which the treatment is explicitly moral.

Untested cancer drugs are often hyped by journalists, doctors and biotech firms, a survey finds. Dressing up unproved medications with shiny words can inspire false optimism among patients.

"We run the risk of going from hysteria to a sense of indifference," says the now-recovered physician. "And I think that is even more dangerous than our fear."

The risk of developing tuberculosis soars when someone has diabetes. The threat of a double pandemic is a challenge for the medical profession, where different docs typically treat each disease.